| EVENT REPORT 10.12.09 6:12 PM |
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Sold-Out Hammer Gala Honoring Eggers and Walker Raises Record $1.3 Million
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 | Hammer Museum's "Gala in the Garden"
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The Hammer Museum's seventh annual "Gala in the Garden" this weekend honored contemporary artist Kara Walker and writer Dave Eggers at a sold-out dinner for 535. Jennifer Wells Green, the museum's deputy director of advancement, and David Morehouse, senior manager of donor relations, oversaw the event, and Mitie Tucker produced it. Co-chairs were Ann Moss, Margie Perenchio, and Carole Bayer Sager, along with honorary co-chair Diane Keaton. The ever-growing gala raised $1.3 million—the most in its history—for Hammer exhibitions and programs, beating last year's take of $1.2 million, the previous record.
Hammer director Ann Philbin welcomed guests including Jane Fonda, Susan and Leonard Nimoy, Neil Patrick Harris, Dana Delany, Edythe and Eli Broad, and Jacqui Getty to the party, which began with open galleries as well as cocktails and hors d'oeuvres from chef Suzanne Goin of A.O.C. and Lucques, who once again prepared the gala's menu. Salman Rushdie gave the tribute to Walker, and actor Catherine Keener spoke about Eggers before the gala's traditionally diverse crowd of new and established artists, gallerists, patrons, and cultural and entertainment players.
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| EVENT REPORT 10.06.08 6:55 PM |
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Gucci-Sponsored Hammer Museum Gala Raises Record $1.2 Million
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A sold-out crowd of 528 dinner guests took to the Hammer Museum's picturesque courtyard last night for the annual Gala in the Garden. This year, the fete brought in a record $1.2 million for the UCLA museum—an increase over last year's $1 million, and considerably more than the first event six years ago, which brought in $125,000. The museum's development director, Jennifer Wells Green, and manager of development events, David Morehouse, oversaw the program. Jennifer and Tobey Maguire and Lauren and Benedikt Taschen co-chaired.
Gucci was the sponsor and an influence on the design. "The color palette was very rich—oranges and ambers. It had that very rich, tactile, Gucci thing going on," said the museum's acting director of communications, Sarah Stifler.
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| TOP 100 EVENTS 02.29.08 11:23 PM |
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Southern California's Top Art Events 2008
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 | The Hammer Museum's Gala in the Garden
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1. Museum of Contemporary Art Gala
MOCA’s much-cooed-over galas are often works of art themselves. The October 2007 event honoring Takashi Murakami at the Geffen Contemporary included a performance by Kanye West and an appearance by honoree Marc Jacobs—along with a guest list full of art-, fashion-, and entertainment-world influencers. The exhibit went on to set opening-week attendance records.
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| EVENT REPORT 10.15.07 7:45 PM |
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Hammer's Garden Gala Still Intimate at Five
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 | The alfresco scene at the Hammer gala.
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In addition to spectacular clothes-watching ops, the Hammer Museum's annual "Gala in the Garden" fund-raiser, set in the museum's diminutive courtyard, is one of those art-world affairs that manages a feeling of warmth and intimacy over pretension. Although this year's fifth annual benefit doubled its guest count (to close to 600, over about 300 five years ago) and raised more than $1 million (up from the first gala's $125,000), it retained its intimate mood.
Hammer development director Jennifer Wells Green oversaw last night's event, working with event producer Mitie Tucker, whose focus is on fashion events—appropriate, since the event chose a fashion-world honoree, Miuccia Prada, for the first time. Museum director Annie Philbin, gala co-chairs Susan and Leonard Nimoy, new UCLA chancellor Gene Block, filmmaker John Waters, and artist Cindy Sherman were among those to make brief remarks. Sherman, not fond of public speaking, made an exception to introduce Prada, who also made remarks despite an assumption to the contrary because of her own speech aversion.
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